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LOT 130:
JOSEPH BEN GORION (commonly and erroneously attributed ...
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JOSEPH BEN GORION (commonly and erroneously attributed to). Yosippon [historical narrative of the Second Temple period].
Two volumes bound in one volume. Two title-pages. Yiddish text printed in Wayber-taytsch type. Woodcut text illustrations.
The Dr. Abraham Berliner copy with his scholarly notes in front.
ff. 163; 2, 101. Stained, opening few leaves worn with taped repairs, lower corner of title removed. Loose in contemporary boards, worn. 4to.
Vinograd, Fürth 361.
Fürth, Chaim b. Tzvi Hirsch, 1767.
Two-part edition, sub-titled Kether Kehunah and Kether Malchuth - also known as She’erith Yisrael. The second part written by Menachem Mann Amelander continues the historical chronicle from the fall of Massada to the writer’s own era of 18th century Holland. Amelander garnered material from both Jewish and general historical sources, resulting in a work unusually rich in information regarding the history of Jews in Germany, Poland and especially Holland.
Once thought to be an actual eyewitness report of events during the Second Temple era, current scholarship has proved that Yosippon, composed by “Joseph ben Gorion” (an apocryphal figure, not be confused with the authentic Josephus Flavius, a true denizen of the Second Temple era), was written in Southern Italy in the year 953.
